Ash receiver for furnaces



Feb. w ANTZ ASH RECEIVER FOR FURNACES Filed May 16, 1929 By flmmizm '5 The principal object of to provide a receiver into which ashes dropj I Patented Feb. 17, 1931 PATENT orries FRED w. scnaivrz, or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY ASH RECEIVER FOR FURNACES;

Application filed May is, 1929. Serial No. 363,526.

' The present invention appertains to new and useful improvements in ash receivers for furnaces, particularly to a novel receiver for ashes.

the invention is ping from the furnace grate will be guided' and prevented from fallingexteriorly of the receptacle part of the invention.

Another important object of the invention r is to provide a guide for directing ashes falling down from the furnace grate into an underlying ash pan. 7

Another object of importance is to provide 1 an ash receiver for furnaces which in use will eliminate the necessity of removing ashes not caught by the pan, which is now required in furnaces where ash Jpans are used.

Numerous other objects and advantages will become apparent as theinvention is better understood from the following specification and claim. In the drawings g Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the improved receiver.

Fig. 2' represents an end elevation of the,

invention. r Fig. 3 represents an end elevation looking that'sho-wn in F ig. 2. p 7 Referring tolthe drawings, wherein l ke numerals designate like parts, the invention referred to by numeral 5, and a. guide for disposition above the receptacle and generally referred to in the drawings by numeral 6. The guide 6 includes a horizontally disposed U-shaped frame 7, supported by vertically disposedjleg members-8. The frame 7 is secured at 9, to the intermediate portion of the legs Sand the upper portions of the legs 8 are declined inwardly as at 10, for attachment to the outer sides of the inclined side and end walls 11-11 and 12 V respectively. I

The end wall 12 is curved at itsends 13 to engage-against the'curved adjacent end Id of the end walls 11-11. The lower edges of the side walls are in rig'htangular relawhile the front "spirit of the invention or at the opposite end of the structure from includes an ash tray or receptacle generally,

tion to each other so thatja substantially rectangular opening is provided through which ashes may be guided into thereceptacle 5.

Th'e'r'eceptacle 5 has a bottom wall as well as side walls 15 and one end wall 16. The upper edge of the receptacle ispreferably rolled as at 17 over a suitable reinforcing element. The single end wall: is to be regarded as the rear wall of the receptaclewall amounts to a narrow forwardly inclined flange 17 merging with. the forward declining ends of the side walls. 15, whichhave their upper edges also rolled to receive reinforcing means. i g A U-shaped member 18 "serves as a bail for thereceptacle, the same having a finger engageable off-set 19 at its bight portion and I 1 by legs 8,;'the"same may be cast in the con- '7 struction of'the V furnace or otherwise secured to the furnace,

without departing 1 from the thescope of the appended claim.

From the foregoing description, it will be a seen that the present invention embodies a simplified and inexpensive receiver for stoves and furnaces,which in use, will eliminate considerable labor now performed in; removing ashes,not caught by the ,usual ash can. I

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is r An ash receiver for furnaces 'c0mpris-. ing a pan, a Ushaped guidefor-directing falling ashes into' said pan, a plurality of legs, a -U-shaped frame for connecting said legs, the legs being inclined inwardly at their upper ends for supporting the guide in 'aslanting position. v In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 1

r V FRED SCHANTZ. 

